grateful - Story 55813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Emily’s shoulders eased as she approached the building. This whole thing had seemed so impossible. Therapy. And with *him* of all people. She felt a lightness. She remembered the taunts, the sneers. But, now, everything felt so different.

She opened the door, and there he was, sitting behind a desk. David. He looked up, his eyes meeting hers, and a slight smile appeared. He motioned her to sit.

The room was filled with sunshine. She sank into the comfortable chair. She felt a strange peace wash over her, a feeling she had not expected. "You look well, Emily," he said softly, and she felt a small smile tug at her own lips.

Emotion: grateful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.77 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grateful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 grateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.571
`de`	0.562
`B`	0.546
`மகி`	0.517
`happy`	0.493

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.582
`😖`	-0.519
`worse`	-0.509
`😫`	-0.498
`😣`	-0.494